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Income in Jeopardy : how losing employment affects the willingness to take risks/ Clemens Hetschko; Malte Preuss
Hetschko, Clemens; Preuss, Malte - 2015
Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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Exports and wages : rent sharing, workforce composition or returns to skills?
Macis, Mario; Schivardi, Fabiano - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422528
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L. - 1999
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001437668
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Education and employment status : a test of the strong screening hypothesis in Italy
Brown, Sarah; Haynes, Matthew; Sessions, John G. - 1997
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Overtime compensation for exempt employees
Gottlieb, E. M. - 1960
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Convergence of Italy's tradable sector growth rate and wage stagnation
De Novellis, Fedele - In: Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali 128 (2020) 1, pp. 11-30
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Parenthood and labour division in Italian two-earner couples
Campolo, Maria Gabriella; Di Pino, Antonino; Rizzi, … - In: International journal of social economics 43 (2016) 12, pp. 1315-1333
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How to measure the tax burden on labour at the macro-level?
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - 2003
The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for … extent the conclusions of some studies change if some alternative indicator for the tax burden on labour is employed. We … indicator for the tax burden on labour is also shown to affect the conclusions of some well-known empirical models. …
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Would you marry me? : The effects of marriage on German couples' allocation of time
El Lahga, AbdelRahmen (contributor);  … - 2007
Living arrangements have undergone considerable change in recent decades. In most Western countries marriage is no longer the exclusive context of family formation. In the United States (US) for instance, the number of unmarried couples nearly doubled in the 1990s, from 3:2 million couples in...
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